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106pa
Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFTon
the handset maker's line of Android
phones. •••
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
•••
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
•••
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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/// • THE LAW
SUIT •••
"The patents at LEGAL ISSUE relate to a
range
of functionality embodied in Motorola's
Android smartphone devices that are
essential to the smartphone user
experience, including synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings, and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power," said Horacio Gutierrez,
Microsoft's (News - Alert) corporate
vice president and deputy general
counsel.
•••
"We have a responsibility to our
customers, partners, and shareholders to
safeguard the billions of dollars we
invest each year in bringing innovative
software products and services to market,"
he added, "Motorola needs to stop its
infringement of our patented inventions in
its Android smartphones." •••
Gutierrez explained that smartphones have
become an integral part of people's daily
lives and are used for a variety of tasks
beyond making phone calls; from watching
video and listening to music to staying in
touch with relatives or friends.
•••
"The Microsoft innovations at issue in
this case help make smartphones 'smart.'
Indeed, our patents relate to key features
that users have come to expect from every
smartphone. The ability to send and
receive e-mail on-the-go has driven
smartphone adoption. Nowadays, everyone
expects to receive e-mail from multiple
services in real time, to read it on their
phones, and to reply or send new messages
out &endash; in continuous and seamless
synchronization with their e-mail
services. Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync,
a proprietary technology that we
developed, makes this possible," Gutierrez
said.
•••
"That Microsoft has important patents in
this area should not surprise anyone
&endash; we've spent over 30 years
developing cutting-edge computer
software," Gutierrez added. "The key value
proposition of smartphones has moved from
the radio stack to the software stack, as
people buy smartphones because they are
fully functional computers that fit in the
palm of your hand. With this shift, it is
imperative that companies address IP
issues related to the software that makes
possible this new class of devices. The
rules of the road are long-established in
the software industry, and fundamental to
the industry's growth and economic impact
is respect for others' intellectual
property rights."
•••
Microsoft's legal action seeks to ensure
its intellectual property rights, and
judging by the recent actions by Apple and
Oracle (News - Alert), Microsoft is
not alone, Gutierrez said.
•••
The Wall Street Journal reported that
Apple has sued an Android phone maker,
HTC for alleged patent infringement,
while Oracle Corp. has sued Google
directly.
•••
If they're successful, the lawsuits could
lead to increased costs for companies that
use the Android operating system,
according to the Journal.
•••
Motorola said it hadn't received a copy of
the new Microsoft legal complaint, but
added, "The company will vigorously defend
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Arts Entertainment - VRA To Release New
WebPlay
vContent å•••
Universal City, CA -- March 2010 /
Video Record Albums of America, (VRA
TelePlay) announces the release of more
than 100 new CD and DVD volumes of
vContent, and software for WebPlay sales,
that include the license for
RadioPlay.
•••
Each CD and DVD features musical stylings,
and seamlessly software to play the Troy
Cory Show, including Troy's vMusic Stage
Concerts performed in the U.S., China,
England, Germany - EU -- since 1968. His
TV-shows went into syndication in 1972.
•
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101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more than 1.1
trillion minutes in the last half of 2009,
an increase of 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
U.S. mobile phone users are
talking, texting and surfing the Web more
than ever, according to new data from a
wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest semiannual industry
survey by CTIA -- the Wireless Assn.
showed that in the last half of 2009,
consumers used more than 1.1 trillion
minutes, up 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent almost 5 billion
text messages per day in the last half of
2009.
•• •
The group did not offer a
comparable figure for text messaging from
2008, but it did say that the number of
multimedia messages -- those that contain
a picture or video -- more than doubled
year over year.
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101
-TCS CloseUp-TakeTwo.htm. A year ago, I
wrote a D-Diary memo identifying long-term
barriers to permanent transformation of
the Service Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008.
•
101 / Show
Biz 107.09 The Berlin Wall - Road To
Europe,
and
"Star
Maker" and
SantaTales." •
•
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendle Cory, Rolf Eden,
and Barabra Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
•
•
It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos,
music arranger, composer and songwriter,
Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy - "Fly,
Robin, Fly," ), and lyricist and
translator, Jossi Sigl produced the
origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in
Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
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Santa
Troy Cory Castle
108w.jpg•
•
The String section on the Munich Sound
recordings was provided by "The Munich
Philharmonics"; piano and arrangements by
Sylvester Levay. Sevral years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
•
•
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle."
The
end of the 1970s found Troy Cory playing
Santa Claus in the German/American
production film "Merry Christmas: Just in
the Nick of Time," starring Priscilla
Cory, as "Little Miss Santa," and
featuring the late German singer, Manuela.
Produced by VRA TelePlay Pictures, Bohemia
Film and Gábor Wagner, of ARD, the
story was filmed in and around the city of
Munich, Nymphenburg and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small village and church
where the Christmas carol "Silent Night"
was performed for the first time on
December 25, 1818.
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• < 100 - Troy
TV Inews 100-
D-Diary Memos
108w.jpg
•
•••
Back then, in the pre-Obama era, I and my
many D-Diary memos would have been
summarily shredded. But under Pres. Obama,
not only is outside criticism invited, he
assigned himself as the chief salesman to
work through the issues. While the road to
permanent transformation stretches a long
way in front of us, there is a key reason
that we are on it at all.
•••
Pres. Obama has been an extraordinary
leader who has recast the White House's
approach to governing. In my opinion, and
with a talented team, a determined federal
judge and an unusually capable congress,
Pres. Obama will accomplished a remarkable
turnaround of a government that had defied
all previous interventions to rein in its
both Pro and Con Hot Topic behavior.
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101 <111- TroyCSnews111-108w
Financial Reforms
•••
But no president could completely alter
the DNA of the goodtime Charlie's of Wall
Street. Permanent reform will take much
longer, and it will happen only if the
president can continue to drive the
mandate down to the financial, foriegn
trade, and health industries, where there
are still holdouts itching to reverse
course.
•••
Pres. Obama will leave behind a blueprint,
but in some ways the next president will
have a more difficult job. He or she will
need determination to make the changes
stick, a deep knowledge of th U.S.A.
culture, the ability to win the buy-in the
middle class consumer and the courage to
touch less on the problems created by
Unions and there issues. •
101 <- tcsCloseUp
- Todays
Priorities.jpg •
These must be the next chief's top
priorities:
• Make Service Your First Priority,
Not Success and Success Will Follow
• Your tviNew HotTopic list might
look like this:
• 1. Family
• 2. Meaningful work
• 3. Health and well-being
• 4. Financial freedom
• 5. Travel and adventure
• Your list might look like
this:
•
Does your list indicate you're not
spending you time doing what you say is
most important to you?
• Are you spending time accomplishing
other people's priorities, but not your
own?
• Memorize your list of priorities,
and use it as a guideline for every demand
that is made on your time.
• Don't let anything come between you
and what truly matters most to you!
• Focus on Innovation
• Maximize Vendor Partnerships
• Collaborate with Other Business
Leaders
• Harness the value of TVInews
Services
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Troy•
101s-
Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe •••
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of original
songs recorded in
Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay,
Grammy winner for "Fly Robin, Fly," who
later had great success with his musical
"Elisabeth," and was the co-writer with
Troy, and Ambros on Troy's BBC recordings,
"Hurricane," "Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey,"
and "Relax."
•••
During the last two
decades of Troy Cory's China concert
tours, Ambros Seelos delivered the
big-band background sound for many of
Troy's TV-stage performances, "Jeepers
Creepers" being a favorite amongst the
Chinese
audiences.
•••
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world, he
also performed together with giants of
Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning Hollywood
film composer and musical writer Sylvester
Levay ("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as a
producer for the living music legends
Elton John and Donna Summer. •
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Google TV project at I/O 2010. The Open
Platform will Bring the Internet to the
big TV Screen.
•••
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010)
&emdash; Today at the Google I/O developer
conference in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the development
of Google TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience, ushering in
a new category of devices for the living
room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together
with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe,
joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google TV.
•••
Over the past decade, the Internet has
created unprecedented opportunity for
innovation and development across the
world, but so far the web has largely been
absent from living rooms. With Google TV,
consumers will now be able to search and
watch an expanded universe of content
available from a variety of sources
including TV providers, the web, their
personal content libraries, and mobile
applications.
•••
Google, Intel, Logitech and Sony have all
Joined Together to Deliver Google TV
Platform. Sellers of the
product: DISH
Network, Best Buy, Adobe to Support the
group to Bringing in the Devices to
Market. •
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Schmidt
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104g - Are
You A Computer
Stonehead? •
104g-
Google
KnowledgeRush •
104s -
Are
You A Computer Stonehead? . . . If you
Dream in Color . . . You probably
Are. •••Your
inner self is the part of you that makes
you aware of your need for rest,
relaxation, peace, tranquility, a slower
pace, and the requirement that you are in
need of a new
perspective.
•••With
this in mind, you'll soon discover that
you, like most "computerized people", are
more interested in predicting their
future, than changing it; and you are very
much receptive to the touches of your
inner self, and in all probability, you
dream in color, which in turn, makes it
easy for you to morph those dreams into
the real thing. Thus, this is the time
when the search for new Horizons sets in.
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that'll guide you to the monetary payoff.
/ Computer Stoneheads, Tranquility vs
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Lodestones
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•106ASCAPvsSmartPhoneFees
/ • 106pa - ASCAP Wins Federal
Service Mark $Fees Ruling . . .
but . . .
the court disputes the method ASCAP
calculates royalty fees due.
•• •The
case involves a dispute over how much
Yahoo Inc. and RealNetworks Inc.
should have to pay the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers in
royalties for the ability to stream music
on their websites.
•••
ASCAP collects performance royalties on
behalf of songwriters from radio stations
and other businesses that play music and
then distributes the payments to the
artists.
•
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•••
The LA-Times reported that "the -- Federal
court ruling made in, (September 28,
2010) -- has the potential to affect
many websites that stream music, a federal
appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lower
court's method for determining music
royalties, saying
the calculations were
flawed."
•••
Though the case directly
concerns Yahoo and RealNetworks, its
outcome could affect how much numerous
sites and online services -- including
AOL, YouTube, Pandora, Slacker Radio and
MOG -- pay for the right to stream
music, said Jon Potter, a principal at RPG
Strategies, a digital media consulting
firm in Bethesda, Md.
•••
"This will absolutely impact the royalty
rates for all Internet radio companies and
music streaming companies, as well as
companies streaming any type of media with
a musical component, including videos and
games," Potter said.
•••
At issue is a district court's decision in
2008 to set a 2.5% royalty rate for
millions of songs owned by the 390,000
songwriters represented by ASCAP.
RealNetworks and, in particular, Yahoo
argued that the calculation was
excessive.
•••
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit sided with
Yahoo, concluding that the lower court's
method for setting royalties was
"unreasonable" and "imprecise" because it
overstated how much the sites benefited
from having streaming music in various
areas of the sites, the judges wrote in
the ruling.
•••
The appeals court faulted the lower
court's "inclination to lump all of
Yahoo's varying musical uses together,
instead of looking into the nature and
scope of Yahoo's different types of uses."
On-demand music streaming, the court noted
as an example, would have a revenue stream
different from that of music that plays in
the background of a video.
•••
The ruling directed the lower court to
come up with a new and fairer method
for determining royalty payments.
•••
Though Yahoo exited the music
streaming business in 2008 when
it handed that function of its site
to CBS Radio, the case involves tens of
millions of dollars in potential back
royalty payments from Yahoo, Potter said.
Overall, ASCAP stands to collect hundreds
of millions of dollars more,
depending on the outcome on the
case.
•••
Yahoo, in a statement, said it was
"pleased with the court's decision and
looks forward to the establishment of a
truly reasonable royalty license rate that
properly accounts for music use on its
services."
•••
RealNetworks shared Yahoo's sentiment,
saying in a statement, "We believe the
guidelines set forth in this decision will
help establish more fair and reasonable
royalty rates for Internet music
providers."
•••
ASCAP issued the following statement: "We
anticipate that in the end, the proceeding
will result in a fair and favorable
license fee to be paid by commercial
online services for the valuable
intellectual property they use to sustain
their businesses -- the music created and
owned by the songwriters, composers and
music publishers ASCAP represents." •
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106pa
Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFT on
the handset maker's line of Android
phones. •••
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
•••
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
•••
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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106pa WiTEL Google,
Baidu and Yahoo wins Neutrality FREEBIES
over Telcos - AT&T,
etc.
•• •
•AT&T, the
nation's largest land-line and wireless
carrier, complained that changing
government rules a year after wireless
companies spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they thought
were unencumbered public airwaves "creates
the impression of a 'bait and switch.'
"
Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Julius Genachowski has announced the rules
and mandates that he says will keep online
Internet traffic moving freely. The
proposals would also cover wireless
Internet service. Wireless carriers have
given his proposal a thumbs down. •
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over Telcos - AT&T,
etc.
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102.09FCCworkout'netneutrality'rules
/ Oct23,
2009. •••
During the NBS
WiTEL press conferance held at Hollywood
Digital confab on October 23, 2009,
FCC
Chairman Julius Genachowski won a victory
on his first major policy issue at the
agency. The
Federal
Communications
Commission
announced they would begin a
data-gathering process. Commissioners may
consider whether regulations should apply
to not just Internet access providers but
also those that feed content to the
Web.
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Oct23, 2009.
•106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit. HP,
reported on • March
18, 2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with three
companies that have been accused of
infringing on the printer company's
patents for ink
cartridges.
•• •
HP filed a complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission in
September, seeking to ban imports of ink
cartridges by 11 companies.
•• •
Two of those companies &emdash;
InkPlusToner.com of Canoga Park, Calif.,
and Comptree Inc. of City of Industry,
Calif., have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum. HP expects
to reach a similar agreement with Smartone
Services LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
•• •
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric Co. of
China has asked an administrative law
judge to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to cease
importing these ink
cartridges.
•• •
A default judgment was entered
against the remaining seven companies:
Mipo International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla., and five
Chinese companies, Shanghai Angel Printer
Supplies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National Resources &
Jingjie Imaging Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image Co.
Ltd.
•• •
HP said it expects the commission
to rule in favor of banning the
importation of these goods from the
companies.
•• •
HP's ink business has long been a
cash cow, only recently being supplanted
as HP's most profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer and ink
division had 2 1/2 times the operating
profit as the personal computer division
in the last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was higher. •
Hewlett-Packard says it has resolved several patent violation
complaints filed against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet cartridges.panies.Last
September, the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had filed its
latest complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC).
•• •
HP at that time roported that
several makers of cartridges for use in
inkjet printers were infringing on HP
patents by importing and selling their
products in the United States. Following
an investigation by the ITC, 11 different
companies were found to have violated
patents related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
•• •
Among the 11 companies charged with
patent infringement, InkPlusToner.com and
Comptree Ink reached settlements with HP.
Both have paid HP an undisclosed amount in
damages and have promised to stop selling
the compatible 02 cartridges in the U.S.
HP added that it expects to reach a
similar agreement with SmartOne
Services.
•• •
The ITC also approved the request
of another company, Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric, to stop the
investigation into alleged patent
violations as long as it promises not to
import or sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP said it
expects the remaining seven companies to
receive notices from the ITC ordering them
to stop importing and selling the
cartridges in
question.
•• •
HP is pleased with the outcome on
these matters, and remains committed to
vigorously pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not respect HP's
IP [intellectual property]
rights," said Stephen Nigro, HP's senior
vice president for Inkjet and Web Services
Business, Imaging and Printing Group, in a
statement
Thursday.
•• •
HP has a long and fierce history of
going after makers of compatible inkjet
cartridges, typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of these cases
have been settled with the manufacturers
paying HP damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in question.
/// • As for
•
106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear off? • •
Google reported -- that it would
delay rolling out in China mobile
applications that run on Android phones
after its Chinese partners came under
government pressure to pull out of deals
with Google.
•• •
Access to Google's Hong Kong search
site has been spotty. Google responded to
mounting concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services with a
blog post that offered some technical
solutions that would allow business users
in mainland China to access a corporate
network offshore, similar to what other
businesses do.
•• •
The company
acknowledged that China could block access
to those services at any time. It has set
up a dashboard on its website displaying
which services are accessible and which
ones are being blocked or partially
blocked.
•• •
"My concern is that
lots of Google's mobile services are based
on search," said Kevin Wang, director of
China research for iSuppli Corp. "Now we
don't know if we'll still have their
search engine in
China."
•• •
As long as the
search engine is accessible, Google will
be positioned to capture a growing share
of mobile advertising, analysts said,
noting that the company's strategy is to
get as many Web-enabled phones as possible
into the hands of
consumers.
•• •
That requires
driving costs down for such devices --
known as smart phones because they combine
the features of a regular phone and a
computer.
•• •
Google offers its
platform for free to pass savings on to
developers and trump competitors such as
Microsoft, which charges a licensing fee
to adopt its cellphone
software.
•• •
The company also
made Android an open-source system to
allow manufacturers and mobile providers
to modify the platform as they see
fit.
•• •
China's leading
telecommunications company, China Mobile
Ltd., already has outfitted a line of
third-generation, or 3G, signal devices
named
OPhones.
•• •
China's two other
state-run telecommunications companies,
China Unicom and China Telecom, also have
included Android-based phones in their
strategies to attract users of smart
phones, though to a lesser
extent.
•• •
Wireless data usage
continues to rise. The association counted
more than 257 million data-capable devices
in circulation at the end of 2009,
compared with 228 million a year earlier.
Carriers saw revenues from data services
jump 25.7% year over year, to more than
$22
billion.
•• •
Total wireless
service revenues increased slightly, to
$77 billion from $75 billion. Industry
analysts have said that carriers may soon
introduce new pricing plans, including
tiered pricing for data users, because
revenues are not keeping pace with data
consumption.
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106CarbonMonoxideLaw
/ New law to require home carbon monoxide
detectors
•••
May 7, 2010 / California homeowners
will be required to install carbon
monoxide detectors starting in July 2011
under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger that is aimed at preventing
deaths and injuries caused by poisoning
from the odorless, colorless gas.
•••Up
to 40 California residents die each year
from carbon monoxide poisoning, according
to state Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long
Beach), whose legislation was signed by
the governor.
•••
"SB 183 will help put an end to the
senseless deaths and injuries Californians
suffer due to accidental carbon monoxide
poisoning every year," said Kevin Nida,
president of the California State
Firefighters' Assn.
•••
The California Air Resources Board
says an average of 30 to 40 "avoidable
deaths" occur in California each year
because of unintentional carbon monoxide
poisoning. Lowenthal said there also are
hundreds of "avoidable" emergency room
visits and hospitalizations in the state
each year.
•••
The bill requires that alarm
devices, which can cost less than $30, to
be installed in existing single-family
homes that have a fossil-fuel burning
appliance, fireplace or attached garage,
starting in mid-2011. All other
residential units will have to have the
detectors in place by Jan. 1, 2013.
•••
In addition to the firefighters
association, the legislation also was
supported by the California Alarm Assn.
and Home Depot.
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• 106
- Can an Arab get a bill passed in
Israel? •• •
During the last Knesset, Ahmad TiBi
passed four [Israel Kaws]. "Before
that, I passed another four or five," he
said in a recent May 2010 LAtimes
interview. ("But it's very difficult for
an Arab MK to pass even one motion. Mine
were all universal laws that were good for
both Jews and Arabs, about medical issues,
environment, anti-corruption. But if I
brought a law on the issue of land
allocation or cessation of discrimination,
it would immediately be brought
down.
•• •
I tried it three months ago with a
motion that said simply the allocation of
land by the state should be equal for all
citizens. I didn't mention "Jewish" or
"Arab" citizens. Automatically the vast
majority of the Knesset voted against me.
Any motion with the principle or word
"equality" will fail. There is not one
basic law in the Knesset talking about the
value of equal rights. Every Knesset I try
to pass it.
///
•
106FCCRoadMapToWiTEL-VoIPMix
/•
May 6, 2010 / The Federal Communications
Commission plans to unveil its road map
for regulating braoadband providers in
response to a feederal court ruling last
month that cast doubt on the agency's
authority over high-speed Internet
access. •••
TheFCC is expected
to impose additional rules on broadband
providers to ensure that the government
has the authority for a plan to bring
high-speed connections to all Americans
and prohibit Internet providers from
discriminating against some kinds of
online traffic. •••
The agecy now treats
broadband as a lightly regulated
information service. But since the ruling,
the FCC has been debating whether to
impose "common carrier" obligations that
make telecom services share their
networks. The agency says it will seek a
third way.
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113.09iiNetNeutralityRule
/ September 21, 2009 / FCC Ensuring
Net neutrality. Julius Genachowski, the
new FCC chairman is right to want new
rules that would keep service providers
from limiting selected data traveling
through their networks.
•• •The
FCC took a tentative stab at the issue in
2004, when then-Chairman Michael Powell
announced four crucial (4
Freebies) "Internet Freedoms":
the ability of Internet users to access
any legal content, software or services
online, and to connect to the Net through
any compatible device. Genachowski laid
out two more: Broadband providers
should not
discriminate against particular websites
or applications, nor conceal how they
manage data. He also said that the
commission should translate these
principles into formal rules rather than
leaving them in legal limbo. •• •Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies argue
that there's little evidence of ISPs
playing unfairly or violating Powell's
four freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved to
stop Comcast from surreptitiously
interfering with a legal file-sharing
application last year, Comcast sued,
claiming the commission had no power to
enforce the principles. It's paradoxical
that the government should have to
regulate the Internet to preserve its
unregulated essence. But with so little
competition in broadband service, the
major phone and cable companies have the
power and the incentive to stop worthy but
disruptive innovations in the name of
"managing congestion." The FCC should set
clear rules that enable ISPs to keep data
flowing from all legal services and
applications, not just favored ones.
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•• •
U.S. mobile phone users are
talking, texting and surfing the Web more
than ever, according to new data from a
wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest semiannual industry
survey by CTIA -- the Wireless Assn.
showed that in the last half of 2009,
consumers used more than 1.1 trillion
minutes, up 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent almost 5 billion
text messages per day in the last half of
2009.
•• •
The group did not offer a
comparable figure for text messaging from
2008, but it did say that the number of
multimedia messages -- those that contain
a picture or video -- more than doubled
year over year. • As for
•
106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear off? • •
Google reported -- that it would
delay rolling out in China mobile
applications that run on Android phones
after its Chinese partners came under
government pressure to pull out of deals
with Google.
•• •
Access to Google's Hong Kong search
site has been spotty. Google responded to
mounting concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services with a
blog post that offered some technical
solutions that would allow business users
in mainland China to access a corporate
network offshore, similar to what other
businesses do.
•• •
The company acknowledged that China
could block access to those services at
any time. It has set up a dashboard on its
website displaying which services are
accessible and which ones are being
blocked or partially
blocked.
•• •
"My concern is that lots of
Google's mobile services are based on
search," said Kevin Wang, director of
China research for iSuppli Corp. "Now we
don't know if we'll still have their
search engine in
China."
•• •
As long as the search engine is
accessible, Google will be positioned to
capture a growing share of mobile
advertising, analysts said, noting that
the company's strategy is to get as many
Web-enabled phones as possible into the
hands of
consumers.
•• •
That requires driving costs down
for such devices -- known as smart phones
because they combine the features of a
regular phone and a
computer.
•• •
Google offers its platform for free
to pass savings on to developers and trump
competitors such as Microsoft, which
charges a licensing fee to adopt its
cellphone
software.
•• •
The company also made Android an
open-source system to allow manufacturers
and mobile providers to modify the
platform as they see
fit.
•• •
China's leading telecommunications
company, China Mobile Ltd., already has
outfitted a line of third-generation, or
3G, signal devices named
OPhones.
•• •
China's two other state-run
telecommunications companies, China Unicom
and China Telecom, also have included
Android-based phones in their strategies
to attract users of smart phones, though
to a lesser
extent.
•• •
Wireless data usage continues to
rise. The association counted more than
257 million data-capable devices in
circulation at the end of 2009, compared
with 228 million a year earlier. Carriers
saw revenues from data services jump 25.7%
year over year, to more than $22
billion.
•• •
Total wireless service revenues
increased slightly, to $77 billion from
$75 billion. Industry analysts have said
that carriers may soon introduce new
pricing plans, including tiered pricing
for data users, because revenues
/// •106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit. HP,
reported on • March
18, 2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with three
companies that have been accused of
infringing on the printer company's
patents for ink
cartridges.
•• •
HP filed a complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission in
September, seeking to ban imports of ink
cartridges by 11 companies.
•• •
Two of those companies &emdash;
InkPlusToner.com of Canoga Park, Calif.,
and Comptree Inc. of City of Industry,
Calif., have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum. HP expects
to reach a similar agreement with Smartone
Services LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
•• •
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric Co. of
China has asked an administrative law
judge to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to cease
importing these ink
cartridges.
•• •
A default judgment was entered
against the remaining seven companies:
Mipo International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla., and five
Chinese companies, Shanghai Angel Printer
Supplies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National Resources &
Jingjie Imaging Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image Co.
Ltd.
•• •
HP said it expects the commission
to rule in favor of banning the
importation of these goods from the
companies.
•• •
HP's ink business has long been a
cash cow, only recently being supplanted
as HP's most profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer and ink
division had 2 1/2 times the operating
profit as the personal computer division
in the last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was higher. •
Hewlett-Packard says it has resolved several patent violation
complaints filed against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet cartridges.panies.Last
September, the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had filed its
latest complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC).
•• •
HP at that time roported that
several makers of cartridges for use in
inkjet printers were infringing on HP
patents by importing and selling their
products in the United States. Following
an investigation by the ITC, 11 different
companies were found to have violated
patents related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
•• •
Among the 11 companies charged with
patent infringement, InkPlusToner.com and
Comptree Ink reached settlements with HP.
Both have paid HP an undisclosed amount in
damages and have promised to stop selling
the compatible 02 cartridges in the U.S.
HP added that it expects to reach a
similar agreement with SmartOne
Services.
•• •
The ITC also approved the request
of another company, Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric, to stop the
investigation into alleged patent
violations as long as it promises not to
import or sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP said it
expects the remaining seven companies to
receive notices from the ITC ordering them
to stop importing and selling the
cartridges in
question.
•• •
HP is pleased with the outcome on
these matters, and remains committed to
vigorously pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not respect HP's
IP [intellectual property]
rights," said Stephen Nigro, HP's senior
vice president for Inkjet and Web Services
Business, Imaging and Printing Group, in a
statement
Thursday.
•• •
HP has a long and fierce history of
going after makers of compatible inkjet
cartridges, typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of these cases
have been settled with the manufacturers
paying HP damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in question.
///
IT WAS ON September 21,
2009 THAT MONDAY FREEBIES - Google, Yahoo
WiTEL vs AT&T, etc. -- began to think
about "recurring fee" structure." •
Internet 'net neutrality' is endorsed by
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes
formalizing rules and adding mandates that
he says would keep online traffic moving
freely. The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service.
•• ••AT&T,
the nation's largest land-line and
wireless carrier, complained that changing
government rules a year after wireless
companies spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they thought
were unencumbered public airwaves "creates
the impression of a 'bait and switch.'
" •••Genachowski
tried to allay some of those concerns. He
said the rules would be enforced case by
case. When networks are congested, for
example, telecommunications companies
might be allowed to limit use by "very
heavy users" so other customers would
still have access to the Internet.
•• •Obama
was a strong supporter of network
neutrality during the presidential
campaign, helping to draw online
support.
•• ••The
FCC's four guiding Internet principles
since 2005 assure that Internet users can
access any legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach any
device to the Internet as long as it
doesn't harm the network. •
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102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
AT&T
and Cable Telcos Rejects project
•• •But
the telecommunications and the cable
companies that control both land-line and
wireless access to the Internet argue that
some customers who download large amounts
of data, such as a continuous flow of
movies, can jam their networks.
Regulations that prevent the companies
from restricting such bandwidth hogs, they
contend, would hamper their networks, harm
innovation and delay upgrades.
•• •The
debate centers on so-called network
neutrality principles that the FCC has
been using for four years to prevent
telecom companies, such as AT&T Inc.
and Time Warner Cable Inc., from
restricting access to websites and other
online services.
•• •Genachowski's
proposal would turn those principles into
permanent rules and expand them to prevent
discrimination against the type of data
flowing through the networks, such as free
Internet phone services or file-sharing
technology for movies. •••The
FCC's four guiding Internet principles
since 2005 assure that Internet users can
access any legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach any
device to the Internet as long as it
doesn't harm the
network.•
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•
AT&T
and Cable Telcos Rejects
project
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•
107 People: Ted
Turner - Chairman of the United Nations
Foundation.
•••
Throughout his career, Ted Turner
has received recognition for his
entrepreneurial acumen, sharp business
skills, leadership qualities, and his
unprecedented philanthropy. Whether in
billboard advertisement, cable television,
sailing, environmental initiatives or
philanthropy, Turner's vision,
determination, generosity and
forthrightness have consistently given the
world reason to take
notice.
•••
Turner is Chairman of the United
Nations Foundation, Co-chairman of the
Nuclear Threat Initiative and Chairman of
the Turner Foundation. He is the founder
of numerous cable networks including CNN,
TNT and Cartoon Network, and a partner in
the Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain.
Turner is also Chairman of Turner
Enterprises, Inc., which manages his
business interests, land holdings and
investments, including the oversight of
two million acres in 12 states and in
Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison
head. •
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PEOPLE
/
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•
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OSCAR®
ACADEMY
/ •
•ABOUT
THE ACADEMY • CLICK
ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
•
•
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is the world's preeminent
movie-related organization, with a
membership of more than 6,000 of the most
accomplished men and women working in
cinema. In addition to the annual Academy
Awards &endash; in which the members vote
to select the nominees and winners
&endash; the Academy presents a diverse
year-round slate of public programs,
exhibitions and events; provides financial
support to a wide range of other
movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the
advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library
and Academy Film Archive, collects,
preserves, restores and provides access to
movies and items related to their history.
Through these and other activities the
Academy serves students, historians, the
entertainment industry and people
everywhere who love
movies.CLICK
FOR MORE ACADEMY www.oscars.org /
www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
www.youtube.com/Oscars
•
•
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle."
The
end of the 1970s found Troy Cory playing
Santa Claus in the German/American
production film "Merry Christmas: Just in
the Nick of Time," starring Priscilla
Cory, as "Little Miss Santa," and
featuring the late German singer, Manuela.
Produced by VRA TelePlay Pictures, Bohemia
Film and Gábor Wagner, of ARD, the
story was filmed in and around the city of
Munich, Nymphenburg and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small village and church
where the Christmas carol "Silent Night"
was performed for the first time on
December 25, 1818.
•
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107-MarybethPetersPeople Marybeth
Peters became the United States Register
of Copyrights on August 7, 1994.
From
1983 to 1994 she held the position of
policy planning adviser to the register.
She has also served as acting general
counsel of the Copyright Office and as
chief of both the Examining and
Information and Reference divisions.
Peters is a frequent speaker on copyright
issues; she is the author of The General
Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976. She
delivered the 2004 Brace Memorial Lecture
(at New York University School of Law) and
the 1996 Horace S. Manages Lecture at
Columbia University School of Law. She
serves on the Intellectual Property
Advisory Committees of several law
schools.CLICK
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/// 108 MONEY - TODAY END 108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims •••
February
2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents. •••
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp •••
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockages.
•
108brin&PageToSellGooglestock . •••
Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece
of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices. •••
According to regulatory documents, Page
and Brin will still own 47.7 million
shares or 48% of the voting power,
combined after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt
controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio
will still continue to control the
company.
•••
The sales will occur periodically during
the next five years and leave the two with
48% of the voting power among
stockholders, down from roughly 59% now. A
tviNews blog report - January 23,
2010.
•108Editor&PublisherRevived.
/ EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one
hundred year old publishing company is
back in business again. •••
EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded
in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The
Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is
back in business again, "seamlessly" . . .
says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews.
Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper
industry, the publication has been
revived" under a new publisher just two
weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable
trade magazine down.
•••
Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based
company that ironically publishes FishRap
News, and titles such as Boating World,
has acquired it for undisclosed terms.
•••
Nielsen originally pulled the plug after
selling much of its trade magazine
division, including titles such as Adweek,
Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, to
e5 Global Media.
•••
We're going to continue to be the main
information source, the main idea source
for the newspaper industry," said Mark
Fitzgerald, who was named Editor &
Publisher 's editor Thursday. "We're all
very excited around here about the
news."
•••
Editor & Publisher, a magazine which
has chronicled the US newspaper industry
for over a century, was sold, exactly two
weeks after being shut down by its owner,
the Nielsen Co.
•••
Duncan McIntosh, whose company also
produces the Newport Boat Show, stated
that; "such a critical information source
for a newspaper industry so desperately in
need of help should not go away."
•••
"I've been a reader of Editor &
Publisher over the course of 30 years and
know its incredible value to readers and
advertisers," McIntosh said.
•••
During the last several years, Newspapers
have been transforming beyond the printed
page to all forms of digital media.
Imagine loosing the one place where the
industry could have a conversation with
itself and exchange ideas and best
practices for navigating . . .
(networking, hypertext) navigating -
Finding your way around. Often used of the
Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web.
•••
Known as the "bible" of the news industry,
Editor & Publisher has been closely
following the struggles of a US newspaper
industry grappling with declining
circulation, falling print advertising
revenue and the migration of readers to
free news online.
•••
Editor & Publisher 's new owner said
there would be a February print issue of
the magazine. E&P's website
immediately resumed operations upon the
completion of the sale.
•••
Nielsen announced last month it was
closing Editor & Publisher and Kirkus
Reviews, a book review publication which
was founded in 1933, and selling several
other brands including the Hollywood
Reporter and Billboard.
•
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USvsSecretSwissAccounts Flipping
STORY
•••
U.S.
and Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank
accounts. The agreement will end a legal
case in which the U.S. sought names of
Americans suspected of evading
taxes.
•••
U.S.
and Swiss negotiators have initialed a
settlement that averts a legal showdown
over the U.S. government's landmark
challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a
government lawyer said
Wednesday.
•••
The
U.S. government had sought a federal court
ruling compelling Switzerland's largest
bank, UBS, to turn over the names of
Americans suspected of dodging taxes
through the use of 52,000 secret
accounts.•
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Feature
Story /
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109
Education
/2GoogleScanDealOrphanBooksGoogle vs Microsoft. Microsoft,
Yahoo and Amazon forms coalition to offset
Google Orphan Book
Settlement..•• •
August 22, 2009 / Three powerful
technology companies have banded together
to oppose Google Inc.'s proposed
settlement with the Authors Guild and the
Assn. of American Publishers over the
Internet search giant's book scanning
project. •
CLICK FOR MORE 02GoogleScanDealOrphanBooks
STORY
•
•
109s - TVImagazine
Photo Ops - 18w and
interviews.
The panel will explore the potential of
the combination of the TV, the set-top,
the broadband connection and digital video
recorder and how every player in the
entertainment and technology food chain
&endash; from content owner to middleware
and headend operator, to the subscriber
service provider and finally to the CE
manufacturer, all play an equally key
role.
•
110
- Hi-Tech:
CableMustCarryTVCableLawUpheld• •110CableMustCarryTVCableLawUpheld
/ May 17, 2010 / WASHINGTON (AP) &emdash;
The Supreme Court has declined to take up
a challenge from cable television
operators to the 18-year-old requirement
that they carry local broadcast stations
on their
systems.
•• •
The justices rejected an appeal
Monday from Cablevision Systems Corp. The
court upheld a federal "must carry" law,
enacted in 1992 when cable TV systems
faced much less competition than they do
today.
•• •
Cablevision, the nation's
fifth-largest cable TV operator, sued the
Federal Communications Commission over its
ruling that forced Cablevision to carry
the signal of a distant home-shopping
station on its Long Island cable systems.
The federal appeals court in New York
upheld the FCC's
determination.
•• •
Cablevision said in court papers
that "the monopolistic nature of the cable
industry...has been replaced by vibrant
competition."
•• •
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inbox.
•• •
The Obama administration urged the
court to stay out of the case. It noted
that being carried on cable systems
"remains critical to broadcast stations'
financial viability
generally."
•• •
C-SPAN, Discovery Communications
and Time Warner Cable filed briefs in
support of Cablevision. C-SPAN said 12
million cables homes lost all or some
access to its programming when cable
operators were forced to make room for
broadcast stations in the
1990s.
•• •
The station, WRNN is based in
Kingston, N.Y., about 90 miles north of
New York City.
•• •
The case is Cablevision v. FCC,
09-901.
///
MAY 22, 2010 / Google Inc.'s $750
million acquisition of mobile ad service
AdMob cleared its final hurdle Friday with
a boost from AdMob's jilted suitor, Apple
Inc.
•• •
The Federal Trade Commission said
it unanimously decided to approve Google's
AdMob deal mainly because of Apple's
recent push into the $600 million mobile
advertising market in the U.S. The ruling
closes a six-month antitrust
investigation.
•• •
The emergence of another
deep-pocketed competitor eased the FTC's
concerns that Google would be able to use
AdMob as a springboard for extending its
dominance into the nascent field of
wireless devices.
///
• OCT 23, 2009 /
110-MicrosoftTimelineWindows
7 launched -
STANDBY •••
Microsoft has taken two parallel routes in
its operating systems. One route has been
for the home user and the other has been
for the professional IT user.
•••
The dual routes have generally led to home
versions having greater multimedia support
and less functionality in networking and
security, and professional versions having
inferior multimedia support and better
networking and security.[citation
needed]
•••
The first version of Microsoft Windows,
version 1.0, released in November 1985,
lacked a degree of functionality and
achieved little popularity, and was to
compete with Apple's own operating
system.[citation needed] Windows
1.0 is not a complete operating system;
rather, it extends MS-DOS.
•••
Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released
in November, 1987 and was slightly more
popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03
(release date January 1988) had changed
the OS from tiled windows to overlapping
windows. The result of this change led to
Apple Computer filing a suit against
Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's
copyrights.
•
111s-TCScloseUp-TakeTwo.htm.
A year ago, I wrote a D-Diary memo
identifying long-term barriers to
permanent transformation of the Service
Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008.
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Legends
of Poker - More Then Vegas / By
Pete Allman
•••
The game of poker is truly a game of skill
and in todays society, thanks to
television coverage and all those
celebrities indulging in the game, it is a
household word.
•••
Legend has it, that poker dates back
to 900 BC in China when Mu-Tsung was said
to have played a form of '' domino
cards''. It has also been said
that poker evovled in the 1400's as
a European game. However, Poker
in America started in Mississippi on
riverboats and was a compliment
to three card Monti , which was dealt
with a 20 card deck that only
contained aces, kings, queens, jacks
and10's.
•••
The big step in the evolution of poker was
in Neveda where it was declared
illegal in 1910.
In California the Attorney
General declared it a game of skill,
thus anti-gambling laws couldn't stop the
masses from playing poker. Then,
in 1931 poker was declared
a legal game in Nevada.
•••
What's not to like with a chef from Italy,
a diversed staff, and an all new
State-of-the-Art Grand Poker
Ballroom. It's an impressive and
exciting place to visit. A place
where younever know who's playing poker or
for that matter Pai Chi.
•••
I came across some actors I
interviewed over the years, and one of
them was Glen Thurman. Glen is
not only a fine actor but he is an
excelent poker palyer, who enjoys to
play at The Bicycle Casino. This
event celebrated the 25th anniversary
of The Bicycle Casino and
the opening of their Grand Poker
Ballroom.
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| China's limits on entertainment imports
violate free trade practices, WTO
rules
••The
ruling is seen as a win for U.S.
industries working to distribute films,
music and books in China. Still, trade
experts say not to expect big
changes.
••Workers
make repairs to the display at a Beijing
movie theater near a model of a character
from the "Transformers" films. Wednesday's
World Trade Organization ruling could help
open the Chinese market to more U.S.
movies. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
••The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months. ••August
13, 2009 / Washington. The LAtimes
reported that . . . in deciding that China
broke international trade rules by
restricting imports of movies, music and
books, the World Trade Organization handed
the U.S. a victory in a contentious issue
that has long rankled purveyors of
copyrighted media products.
••But
it doesn't mean Hollywood or Silicon
Valley will be cashing in any time soon.
••The
ruling, issued Wednesday by a WTO panel in
Geneva, called on China to stop requiring
foreign media suppliers to go through the
costly process of distributing goods
through Chinese state-owned entities. It
also urged China to allow foreign
companies to sell music over the Internet,
a potentially huge opportunity for
companies such as Apple Inc., with its
iTunes. China has the largest number of
Internet users, but piracy online and in
the streets is rampant.
••The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months.
••Although
China has complied with past WTO rulings
against it, analysts say Beijing could
appeal the latest decision, which could
drag out the case for many more months.
The complaint was first brought by the
U.S. in spring
2007.
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Army Archerd interviewed everyone from
Hollywood stars to heads of state in his
illustrious 52 years as a Daily Variety
columnist.
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In 1947, Archerd was hired by the
Herald-Express as assistant (i.e., "leg
man") to drama-movie editor-columnist
Harrison
Carroll.
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In addition to covering the studios,
Archerd began reporting on the local
nightclub scene, which included Sunset
Strip sites like the Mocambo and Ciro's
and music spots down La Cienega, La Brea
and Ventura
Boulevard.
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After leaving Harrison Carroll, the Daily
Variety editor Joe Schoenfeld hired
Archerd in 1953 to replace columnist
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115-Event:
RSTechEd 2010 is NOW under way in Los
Angeles: at the JW Marriot Hotel. The
event is from June 6th to June 11th,2010 /
Remember,
RSTechED is more than just a classroom
with Sessions. "A GREAT event here at the
JW Marriot Hotel," says tviNews, Gary
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Event: PRODUCED BY 2010 CONFERENCE - 20th
Century Fox JUNE 4-6 TVInews Press
attending: Josie Cory, Toni Convinton,
George Bejue; Troy Cory; Mark
Anderson.
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THE PRODUCED BY CONFERENCE RETURNS TO LOS
ANGELES JUNE 4-6, 2010 FOR AN
EXTRAORDINARY WEEKEND OF DISCOVERY,
LEARNING AND CREATIVE INSPIRATION.
PRESENTED BY THE PRODUCERS GUILD OF
AMERICA AND HOSTED BY 20TH CENTURY FOX
STUDIOS, THE PRODUCED BY CONFERENCE BRINGS
TOGETHER THE ENTIRE PRODUCING
PROFESSION.
•••
Whether you're a first-time producer
seeking mentoring in getting your initial
project off the ground, or an industry
veteran learning to adapt to the daunting
demands of the digital marketplace, the
path to realizing your creative ambitions
runs through the Produced By Conference.
Featuring an incredible array of speakers,
seminars, technology demonstrations,
networking opportunities, social events
and vendor displays, this event offers an
unmatched collection of professional
resources.
•••
The greatest of those resources will be
your fellow attendees. Producing
entertainment is a collective enterprise.
Who can help take your project to the next
level? A partner? A collaborator? A
mentor? A benefactor? All of them will be
in attendance at the Produced By
Conference. To learn more about some of
your featured speakers and fellow
attendees, click here.
•••
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source of information and innovation
unique in the entertainment industry.
Register today, and take the next step in
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/ 107- Los Angeles Times Travel &
Adventure Show / February 13-14 / TVInews
Journalist Attending: Gary Sunking, Josie
Cory.
/
General
Info: The annual Los Angeles Times Travel
& Adventure Show will be held Saturday
& Sunday, February 13-14, 2010.
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Los Angeles Convention
Center
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1201 South Figueroa
Street
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Los Angeles, CA
90015
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Hours Public Hours &endash; 10am to 5pm,
Saturday and
Sunday
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Travel Trade Hours &endash; 8am to 10am,
Saturday
only:.
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General Admission:
$10
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The box office on site will open at 9:30
A.M. each day. Or get $2 off by purchasing
in advance online! Purchase tickets in
advance.
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Travel Agents and Children 16 and under
free (children must be accompanied by an
adult)
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The Los Angeles Times Travel &
Adventure Show will take place at the Los
Angeles Convention Center in the WEST
HALL. CLICK
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Eat & Drink / Downtown
Destinations ***Los
Angeles boasts a dynamic downtown that
embraces all aspects of the
community. From the Walt Disney
Concert Hall, the Museum of Contemporary
Art and Little Tokyo to the Historic El
Pueblo, Fashion, Arts and Jewelry
Districts, there is round-the-clock energy
and opportunities. ***An
impressive lineup of downtown restaurants,
lounges and clubs will welcome film
festival attendees with special discounts
and offerings. A complete list will
be available on June 1, including J Lounge
& Restaurant, Starry Kitchen, Bottle
Rock, ESPN Zone at L.A. LIVE, all of 213
Downtown LA Nightlife and more. *CLICK
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July
3rd •
Special Events: Munich, Germany • 24 June
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• filmtonart. Film Music
Day
• 26 June
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• Bozen Film Festival
Sören Bauer • 8.30 pm
• 28. June /
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• teamWorx Reception •
9.30-11.30 pm
• 29. June /
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• ZDF Reception • 11.30
am /
• 30. June
/•••
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2.00 pm
• 01. July to 03 • Closing
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115•NAB-TradeShowAbout
the 2010 NAB Show / The NAB Show will take
place 10-15 April, 2010 in Las Vegas
(exhibits open 12
April). It is
the world's largest electronic media show
covering filmed entertainment and the
development, management and delivery of
content across all mediums. Complete
details are available at
www.nabshow.com. •••
• About NAB •••
The National Association of Broadcasters
is the premier advocacy association for
America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio
and television interests in legislative,
regulatory and public affairs. Through
advocacy, education and innovation, NAB
enables broadcasters to best serve their
communities, strengthen their businesses
and seize new opportunities in the digital
age.
•••
NAB Show organizers today unveiled
MyNABShow Mobile.
•••
WASHINGTON, DC -- NAB Show organizers
unveiled today a new mobile app that will
provide attendees with NAB Show
information, delivered directly to their
handheld device.
•••
MyNABShow Mobile, the official NAB Show
smartphone application, will provide users
with unique features that include
interactive exhibit floor maps, social
media interaction, and the ability to
download exhibitor brochures. The mobile
app, powered by Core-apps' Follow Me
service, is sponsored by StreamTheWorld
and available free of charge for all
smartphone users attending the NAB Show,
April 10-15 in Las Vegas.
•••
MyNABShow Mobile will allow users to build
and import their show schedule directly,
providing attendees with a personalized
lineup of sessions and events. The app
also provides a listing of all of the NAB
Show speakers and exhibitors. Apple iPhone
users will have access to an interactive
exhibit floor map, making it easy to
identify their location and find
exhibiting companies in their vicinity.
The mobile app is available for the Apple
iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry. Other
smartphone users will have access to a
free, mobile Web-based application.
•••
More information, including an online
video demonstration of the app is
available at NABShow.com/mobile. The app
can be downloaded from the NAB Show's
mobile Web site, m.NABShow.com.
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2010, Las Vegas, Nevada
The
Association's Mission: To serve as the
definitive source for information about
the consumer electronics industry. EVENT
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• AFI FEST -
will celebrate its 23rd year • When: 2010: COMING October
30th and November 5th /
• Where: Hollywood, - Mann's
Chinese Theaters / In the spirit of
"giving back" to our community and to
promote philanthropy through film, AFI
FEST will offer complimentary individual
tickets to all screenings, including a
limited number of seats to the
galas.
•••
The festival headquarters will be at the
historic Mann's Chinese Theaters between
October 30th and November 5th, and then
move to the seaside for screening in Santa
Monica presented in association with the
American Film Market (AFM). The Hollywood
Roosevelt returns as the festival's host
hotel.
•••
Each fall, AFI FEST presents a survey of
the year's most significant films.
Featuring international work from emerging
filmmakers, global showcases of films from
the great masters and red-carpet gala
premieres, AFI FEST brings world cinema to
the heart of Hollywood.
• When: 2010:
November
• Where: Santa Monica, California The business of
independent motion picture production and
distribution - a truly collaborative
process - reaches its peak every year at
the American Film Market. Over 8,000
industry leaders converge in Santa Monica
for eight days of deal-making, screenings,
seminars, red carpet premieres, networking
and parties. Participants come from over
70 countries and include acquisition and
development executives, agents, attorneys,
directors, distributors, festival
directors, financiers, film commissioners,
producers, writers, the world's press all
those who provide services to the motion
picture industry.
•••
Founded in 1981, the American Film Market
(AFM) has grown steadily to become the
premiere global marketplace where
Hollywood's decision-makers and
trendsetters all gather under one roof.
Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a
marketplace where production and
distribution deals are closed. In just
eight days, more than $800 million in
deals will be sealed &emdash; on both
completed films and those that haven't
started shooting yet &emdash; making AFM
the must-attend industry event.
•••
The AFM transforms Santa Monica. The Loews
Santa Monica Beach Hotel and the Le
Merigot Beach Hotel are converted into a
busy marketplace. All 23 screens on the
Santa Monica Promenade and the surrounding
community become AFM screening rooms for
the entire eight-day event and eight
digital and video screening rooms are
added just for the AFM. Participants may
view more than 900 screenings of
approximately 500 films - 31 new films
every two hours - the majority of them
world or U.S. premieres.
•••
Titles range from big budget blockbusters
that will be released by the major studios
in the U.S., to lower budget art and genre
films recognized at international film
festivals, all destined for theaters and
television around the world.
•••
With 8,000 attendees, 900 screenings, and
seminars programmed by leading industry
organizations, the American Film Market
continues to be the pivotal destination
for independent filmmakers and business
people from all over the world.
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Annual MiP-tv April 8th •
MipComCannes108w.jpg>• ***02.
October 4 - Inaugural MIPCOM 2010
World Premiere TV Screenings open with
Lionsgate's "Mad Men" and "Running
Wilde"
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Paris, 31 August 2010 &endash; Reed MIDEM
today announces the first MIPCOM World
Premiere TV Screenings on October 4 in
Cannes, France. The event opens with cast
members attending a special screening of
Lionsgate's multiple Emmy® Award
winning "Mad Men" and the international
debut of "Running
Wilde."
•••
"We
are delighted to introduce the MIPCOM
World Premiere TV Screenings as a premium
showcase for leading television and film
companies to screen outstanding programmes
to the most influential buyers, industry
players, and international media from over
100 countries," says Laurine Garaude,
Director of Reed MIDEM's Television
Division.
•••
The
inaugural event, to be held in the Palais
des Festivals' prestigious Grand
Auditorium, is open to all MIPCOM
delegates. •
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Michael
D. Eisner will be the Keynote Speaker at
the Variety Summit - which is being held
on the opening day of Digital Hollywood,
Monday, October 18th at the Loews in Santa
Monica.
•••
Michael
D. Eisner, Founder, The Tornante Company:
Former Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of The Walt Disney Company,
Michael Eisner has, for four decades, been
a leader in the American entertainment
industry. He began his career at ABC,
where he helped take the network from
number three to number one in primetime,
daytime and children's television with
such landmark shows as Happy Days, Barney
Miller, Rich Man, Poor Man, and Roots.
•••
In 1984
Michael assumed the position of Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt
Disney Company and, in the ensuing 21
years, transformed it from a film and
theme park company with $1.8 billion in
enterprise value into a global media
empire valued at $80 billion. In 2005,
Michael began the "next act" of his
career, by founding
•••
The
Tornante Company, a privately held company
that invests in, acquires, incubates, and
operates media and entertainment
companies.
•••
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/LAFall10Agenda.html
•••
•
Victor Harwood, President, Digital
Hollywood, 212-352-9720
• Variety Entertainment and
Technology Summit Agenda
•••
•
Monday, October 18th, 2010 /
9:30 AM
&endash; Welcome and Introduction
• Opening Keynote:
Michael
D. Eisner, Founder, The Tornante
Company
• 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
•••
Advertising
Roundtable: Branded Content and the
Evolution of the 30-Second Spot
•••
Michael
Kassan, chairman/CEO, MediaLink, LLC,
Moderator
•••
Linda
Yaccarino, EVP/general manager, Turner
Entertainment Sales and Marketing, Turner
Networks
•••
Matt
Diamond, CEO, Alloy Media +
Marketing
•••
Jarrod
Moses, Founder, President and CEO, United
Entertainment Group
•••
Paul
Kontonis, VP, Group Director of Branded
Content, Digitas and The Third Act
Digital
•••
11:15
AM - 11:30 AM &endash; Networking
Break
•••
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
•••
Navigating
Social Media for Film and TV
Jason
Harris, President, Mekanism
Matt
Jacobson, Head of Market Development ,
Facebook
Hardie
Tankersley, VP Innovation, Fox
Broadcasting
Doug
Neil, Senior, VP of Digital Marketing,
Universal Pictures
Danielle
DePalma, VP Digital Marketing,
Lionsgate
2:45
PM - 3:30 PM
Keynote
Conversation
3:30
&endash; 3:45 Networking
Break
3:45
PM - 4:30 PM
Who
is King of the Digital Living
Room?
Brent
Weinstein, Head of Digital Media,
United Talent Agency, moderator
Russ
Schafer, Senior Director Product
Marketing, Connected TV,
Yahoo
Chris
Homeister, Head of Entertainment, Best
Buy
Maitreyi
Krishnaswamy, Director of Video
Services Product Management, Verizon
FiOS TV
Mitch
Singer, CTO, Sony Pictures
Entertainment & President, Digital
Entertainment Content
Ecosystem
4:30
PM - 5:30 PM
Producers
Guild of America 2010 Digital 25
Panel
The
Producers Guild of America and Variety
bring together Visionaries, Innovators
and Producers to discuss the evolution
of digital storytelling and how
innovation in media platforms and
production is changing the way we
create, consume and share
entertainment.
5:30
PM - The Poolside Reception /// •
Digital
Hollywood - The Variety Entertainment
and Technology Summit, Monday, May 3rd
- The Loews in Santa Monica
- Power, Leadership! One
Day in May - The Epicenter of the
Industry!
•••
Check it out, Mark Your Calendar
- Register
-http://digitalhollywood.com/varietysummit/
•••
Special thanks to Brian Gott,
Publisher, Variety, Neil Stiles,
President, Variety and Linda Buckley
Bruno, Publishing Director, Variety for
their efforts in creating this event
which is destined to be the year's
"Who's Who for Executives" in the
entertainment and technology
industries.
•••
See you there, Victor Harwood,
President, Digital Hollywood,
212-352-9720. CLICK
FOR MORE-HD -
DIRECT
Monday, May 3rd,
2010 •••
9:00 AM &endash; Welcome and
Introduction
•••
Neil Stiles, President,
Variety
•••
11:15 AM - 12:00
Noon
•••
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM - Keynote
Luncheon - Roundtable
•••
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM / Hollywood,
Finance &
Strategy:
•••
5:15 PM - The Poolside
Reception
•••
Hosted by: Cisco
Eos
•••
Victor Harwood, President - Digital
Hollywood
•••
421 Hudson St., #320 - New York, NY
10014
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212-352-9720
••
With
the economy
collapsing, the
ranks of the unemployed growing, and the
bailout hearings underway to determine the
fate of U.S. automakers, GM, Ford and
Chrysler, the last thing we seem to need
in a America is a autoshow displaying
exotic cars and the newest designs from
Germany, Japan, and Italy that came about
after World War II. Wrong!
says
Kurt
Sigl of the Car-Cycle Sigl
Events. ••
Even while automotive dealers
and consumers around the country followed
the news of bailout hearings and the fate
of Detroit's 3, the atmosphere at the LA
Auto Show was "electric," for those
pin-pointing the cars from Bavaria, and
Japan.•
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STORY
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STORY. •
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Website - English: Information, Kurt
Sigl •
Authors
Website - German: Information, Kurt
Sigl
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